Fabrication Of Ancestors Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFFGHIJKLMNOPQRSF TUOVO| For old Billy Dugan shot in the ass in the Civil War my father said | A |
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| The old wound in my ass | B |
| has opened up again but I | C |
| am past the prodigies | D |
| of youth s campaigns and weep | E |
| where I used to laugh | F |
| in war s red humors half | F |
| in love with silly assed pains | G |
| and half not feeling them | H |
| I have to sit up with | I |
| an indoor unsittable itch | J |
| before I go down late | K |
| and weeping to the storm | L |
| cellar on a dirty night | M |
| and go to bed with the worms | N |
| So pull the dirt up over me | O |
| and make a family joke | P |
| for Old Billy Blue Balls | Q |
| the oldest private in the world | R |
| with two ass holes and no | S |
| place more to go to for a laugh | F |
| except the last one Say | T |
| The North won the Civil War | U |
| without much help from me | O |
| although I wear a proof | V |
| of the war s obscenity | O |
Alan Dugan
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